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Graphite-and-light-wash reference of a young woman in left-facing profile with forehead-to-chin contour, visible eye and lips, ear, long neck, and hair swept into a loose bun

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Side Profile Face

Draw a clean side-profile face with simple hair shapes.

30–52 minutesadvancedrealistic

Today’s focus

Relate the forehead, nose, lips, chin, ear, skull, and neck along one clean profile construction

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Four-part session

Observe, construct, compare, reflect

  1. 1

    Draw the cranial mass as an oval and attach a tapered jaw, then mark the brow, nose base, mouth, and chin heights.

  2. 2

    Carve one continuous profile from forehead through nose, lips, and chin, checking each projection against the face plane.

  3. 3

    Place the visible eye beneath the brow and the ear between brow and nose-base levels.

  4. 4

    Sweep the jaw into the neck and build the hair mass around the skull before gathering loose strands into the rear bun.

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